MUM IS EXTRA LOUD

2012Object, various electric motors

A pile of household appliances motors bundled together. Once a day all the motors are briefly switched on simultaneously. There is noise, exposed carbon brushes of the motors show their electric arcs, rotation elements rotate; the pile tenses up, resembling a muscle contraction. Of course visitors are most likely to miss this active moment since it only occurs once a day. They will have to imagine it without confirmation of the result.

As opposed to the eponymous course of events: maybe I would over-interpret my mother’s actions in sensitive moments, maybe she would subconsciously or even deliberately (which she denies) carry out her actions when she would make a lot of noise with her household appliances every Sunday and even go as far as invading my room with a hoover, stifling all my hopes for a much yearned for sleeping in.

There are resting elements in the object that, even though their activity seems ominous, could turn out to be surprisingly unpleasant. Not to forget that the open electric circuits pose an actual threat.